I have been there before Roseway, I used to do a lot, very lot of SLR film photography but this will be my first digital SLR. I have not gone down the bundle route and have bought a body and a fixed focus 50mm lens but will add zoom later.
I have an old Metz 45 flash gun but even though I have got an adapter to lower the triger voltage to below 6 volts I will be scared the first time I try it on the new SLR.